Tag Archives: Thematic

Cozy Child Theme

This elegant WordPress theme started as a custom project but ended up as a Child Theme for the Thematic Framework. It’s a warm design that makes you feel comfortable.
By | Published: February 22, 2011 | Posted in Recomended Reading, Thematic, Theme Design | Also tagged , | 1 Comment

All Child Themes got updated

While a bit late, we finally managed to get all Child Themes that are free for download updated to work with the latest Thematic (# Version: 0.9.7.7). Early Morning, Street and Byty now make use of the WordPress 3.0 menu system, while Commune now makes use of the Featured thumbnail image that comes with WordPress [...]
By | Published: November 17, 2010 | Posted in Thematic, Wordpress | Also tagged | 2 Comments

Thematic Tabbed Widgets

Tabbed widgets for WordPress themes have been around since WordPress it self. They are a perfect way to save on vertical space and add a bit of interaction with the users. There are two classic ways of implementing the tabbed widgets. Creating a hard coded widget and using the jQuery Cycle plugin. This means you [...]
By | Published: May 2, 2010 | Posted in Thematic, Wordpress | Also tagged , , | 18 Comments

Early Morning Child Theme

This elegant WordPress theme was inspired by the colors of the early morning as I see them from my window. It’s light, elegant and pleasantly surprising. This theme doesn’t scream at you, instead it takes a step back and lets the user read. Please don’t spoil it by putting ads on it!
By | Published: July 20, 2009 | Posted in Recomended Reading, Thematic, Theme Design, Wordpress | Also tagged , , , | 171 Comments

Add “Featured Posts” to your Thematic child theme

Featured posts are common in WordPress magazine themes. They let you promote hot topics and bring your best articles right in front of your users. First thing we need to do is create a thematic child theme. This way we won’t make direct changes to Thematic. The featured posts will be inserted on the home [...]
By | Published: June 26, 2009 | Posted in Thematic, Wordpress | Also tagged , , | 28 Comments

Street WordPress Theme

Street is something that was created from a spark of inspiration, something that I felt should look like this. This wasn’t thought out nor planed. It uses the beautiful Vegur Free Font for the headings and main menu, implemented by Cufon (text replacement technique). I’ve spent a great deal of time searching for the perfect [...]
By | Published: June 2, 2009 | Posted in Thematic, Theme Design | Also tagged , , , | 88 Comments

Add a search box to the thematic menu

A search box in main menu is something a lot of themes have by design. Although this is not the case with the Thematic Theme Framework, it’s easy to customize it with a few lines of code. First thing we need to do is create a thematic child theme. This way we won’t make direct [...]
By | Published: April 15, 2009 | Posted in Recomended Reading, Thematic, Theme Design, Wordpress | Also tagged , | 51 Comments

Green anyone? Try Commune – Thematic Child Theme!

Update 11.17.2010 The category image was removed and all thumbnails are now created using the Featured Image default functionality. If no Featured Image is added a default image appears in place. Simply put I have been lazy lately. I know this isn’t the best way to sell my self but a little bit of honesty [...]
By | Published: April 7, 2009 | Posted in Recomended Reading, Theme Design, Wordpress | Also tagged , , | 283 Comments

Quickly add a Category DropDown to Thematic 0.9

With the launch of Thematic 0.9 we now have out of the box drop-down menus to work with. This is one of the many features added to 0.9 that was requested by the community. However sometimes one might want to replace the default Thematic menu with a menu composed with the categories and sub-categories of [...]
By | Published: March 20, 2009 | Posted in Theme Design, Wordpress | Also tagged , | 15 Comments